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Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.

It's a box of antique photographs. A blade, a girl and a fish. Whatever it means, you're invested.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

vi users when they see multiple font sizes for the first time:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

I use emacs in a terminal, like God intended, in screen or tmux.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When does pmjv do authentic vim art

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

authentic

Hmm.

https://github.com/chaoren/vim-imageview

img2txt

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$ wget https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/e081b59e-7b48-4114-b8fa-e721dd0af371.png -O ~/tmp/technomage-vim.png
$ git clone https://github.com/hit9/img2txt.git
$ cd img2txt
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip install img2txt.py
(venv) $ ./img2txt.py --dither --targetAspect=.4 --ansi ~/tmp/technomage-vim.png

Yes, now authenticity has fully been achieved!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I can feel the fish guiding my hand when I create vim macros

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

~15 minutes, give or take.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Good to see girl is wearing a safety vest. That Ctrl key might break your pinky finger at any point!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I dunno. Those vim users get a muscular left pinky from mashing Escape like a rat on a cocaine dispenser.

I'm pretty sure that a typical emacs user has more chorded Control-key presses than a typical vim user does Escape key presses.

But I'm not at all sure that that's true of actually toggling the respective keys up and down, and if you figure that that's most of the physical work... Like, if I hit C-x C-s and then C-x C-f in emacs, I'm not actually releasing the Control key between the four chorded keypresses. A vim user is gonna maybe smack Escape to go from insert to system mode, then do their :w|e or whatever. That'd be the same number of Escape and Control keypresses.

EDIT: Normal mode, not system mode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If you're using your pinkie you're doing it wrong...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/sasl/Steps.html

3.3 Steps

A step (sasl-step object) is an abstraction of authentication “step” which holds the response value and the next entry point for the authentication process (the latter is not accessible).

Looks like it's for if you're using an emacs IRC client or mail client or XMPP client, to do part of the authentication.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

don't speak too loud otherwise they'll C-x C-f you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago